"It's of no use," observed Thames quietly, but with a look that chilled the little damsel's heart;—"my resolution is taken. There was nothing to replace the all important letter from her father. Your mother, for what it’s worth to you—for there’s nothing for you here, by God!—was the woman I chose for Nicholas. I'll tell you something. "Arrest!" "Jigger closed!" shouted a hoarse voice in reply. She was beautiful once, Lucia. "There is nobody else. I know I am undeserving of your bounty; but if I were to tell you what hardships I have undergone—to what frightful extremities I have been reduced—and to what infamy I have submitted, to earn a scanty subsistence for this child's sake, —if you could feel what it is to stand alone in the world as I do, bereft of all who have ever loved me, and shunned by all who have ever known me, except the worthless and the wretched,—if you knew (and Heaven grant you may be spared the knowledge!) how much affliction sharpens love, and how much more dear to me my child has become for every sacrifice I have made for him,—if you were told all this, you would, I am sure, pity rather than reproach me, because I cannot at once consent to a separation, which I feel would break my heart. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never take in promiscuous travellers. She uttered a little ejaculative note of joy and rushed to the bed. CHAPTER I.
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